The city is really transformed into a Christmas wonderland with colourful and warm fairy lights and other luminous ornaments all around. Streets, churches, houses, balconies, windows and gardens shine brilliantly with Christmas festivities. It is, in fact, a pathway of lights that guide the visitor through the city. The houses with timber strips crisscrossing their façade and the hinged windows that open on the outside and the sloping roofs with the attics add to the enchantment and you feel as though you just stepped into a glossy page of a colourful fairy tale book. You almost expect to see a Christmas elf peep from one of those whimsical houses!
Strasbourg, “Capital de Noel “, is certainly an unforgettable journey in the magic of Christmas, for the young and the old, the fun and the sombre, the shy and the flamboyant. It is indeed a symbol of secular festive celebration, where everyone can experience the joy and cheer of the most wonderful time of the year.
